2018 PDC World Youth Championship


The 2018 PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship was the eighth edition of the PDC World Youth Championship, a tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation for darts players aged between 16 and 23.
In a change mirroring that of the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, the field of this competition increased from 64 to 96 players, who competed in 32 groups of three, with the winner of each progressing to the knockout stages.
The group stage and knock-out phase from the last 32 to the semi-finals was played at Robin Park Centre, Wigan, on 5 November 2018. The final took place on 25 November 2018, before the final of the 2018 Players Championship Finals.
Belgium's Dimitri Van den Bergh was the defending champion after defeating English player Josh Payne 6–3 in the 2017 final.
Van den Bergh successfully defended his youth title, by beating Germany's Martin Schindler 6–3 in the final.
Van den Bergh became the first player to defend the title and overall to win two times the PDC World Youth Title.

Qualifiers

74 players from the final 2018 PDC Development Tour Order of Merit qualified, as did 22 international qualifiers. Tahuna Irwin, who would have been the 23rd international qualifier, withdrew due to an issue with immigration. Bradley Brooks, Dawson Murschell and Rusty-Jake Rodriguez qualified through the Development Tour Order of Merit as well as through an International Qualifier, which means the players ranked 75, 76 and 77 all qualified. Levy Frauenfelder replaced Jakob Kelly.
Development Tour qualifiers:
  1. Luke Humphries
  2. Dimitri Van den Bergh
  3. Ted Evetts
  4. Geert Nentjes
  5. Martin Schindler
  6. George Killington
  7. Rowby-John Rodriguez
  8. Ryan Meikle
  9. Niels Zonneveld
  10. Christian Bunse
  11. Jarred Cole
  12. Nathan Rafferty
  13. Berry van Peer
  14. Kenny Neyens
  15. Wessel Nijman
  16. Rob Hewson
  17. Bradley Brooks
  18. Jimmy Hendriks
  19. Dawson Murschell
  20. George Gardner
  21. Bradley Kirk
  22. Justin van Tergouw
  23. Mike De Decker
  24. Rhys Griffin
  25. Tommy Wilson
  26. Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
  27. Lee Budgen
  28. Rhys Hayden
  29. Brian Raman
  30. Scott Dale
  31. Melvin de Fijter
  32. Joe Davis
  33. William Borland
  34. Josh McCarthy
  35. Callan Rydz
  36. Harry Ward
  37. Danny van Trijp
  38. Jordan Boyce
  39. Jeffrey de Zwaan
  40. Tom Lonsdale
  41. Shane McGuirk
  42. Lewis Pride
  43. Greg Ritchie
  44. Mike van Duivenbode
  45. Kevin Doets
  46. Nico Blum
  47. Patrick van den Boogaard
  48. Dean Finn
  49. Callum Loose
  50. John Brown
  51. Sven Groen
  52. Mark Baxter
  53. Maikel Verberk
  54. Thomas Lovely
  55. Carl Batchelor
  56. Justin Smith
  57. Hendrik Eggermann
  58. Jaikob Selby
  59. Dylan Powell
  60. Scott Jackson
  61. Christopher Hansch
  62. Jakob Kelly
  63. Fred Box
  64. Jack Male
  65. Nico Schlund
  66. Adam Paxton
  67. Danny Key
  68. Conor Mayes
  69. Keelan Kay
  70. Sebastian Pohl
  71. Adam Watson
  72. Jack Vincent
  73. Andrew Davidson
  74. Declan Cox
  75. Jack Main
  76. Aaron Holdstock
  77. Callum Matthews
  78. Levy Frauenfelder
International qualifiers:

Draw

Group stage